Nano Banana 2.1 pushes out the Quality vs Price frontier, placing three ranks higher than Nano Banana 2 at half the price
Google halved the 1K price from Nano Banana 2 and raised quality at the same time. No cheaper model on AA-Image-T2I v2.0 scores higher, and the three models that do score higher cost about 6x more per image. Its two closest rivals on quality, Grok Imagine Image 2.0 and MAI-Image-2.6, both cost more.
In Image Editing, it sits level with MAI-Image-2.6 at a 14% lower price.
